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Essay / Analysis by Simon Wiesenthal - 1610
In most cases, when you are asked for forgiveness, it is for something that is relatively small in comparison to what Wiesenthal had to endure being directly affected by the Holocaust. However, what should you do if you are faced with a problem of this magnitude? Is it even possible to forgive someone who seems to apologize only because they are on their deathbed? It would be very difficult for me to do what the Dalai Lama and Kushner suggest. Even if I were in Wiesenthal's place and someone like Seidl had lived a long life filled with regrets, I don't know if I would be able to truly forgive him for committing such atrocities. So my forgiveness would not be possible unless they were forced to do something they were fundamentally against, which in Seidl's case was not the case. After hearing about how he threw himself into this endeavor with such enthusiasm, that's where the line would be drawn. Just like Wiesenthal, I would have left. There would be no forgiveness on my part, and certainly no